weltfrieden

What do most hotels do when guests have urinated in the pools?

I was at a friend's house earlier this afternoon. He was telling me
that he had to drain the entire pool after another friend's baby
peed in the pool last summer. He had to order three tanker trucks
to carry in the fresh pool water.

It reminded me of an incident at a hotel pool in Hawaii several
years ago. Several guest(myself included) noticed a few teens who
decided to relief themselves in the middle of the pool (yes, we saw
the water getting "yellow" around them. We called the hotel manager
who kicked those teens out of the hotels.(not sure if they were staying
there with their parents or not) I remember the manager telling us
that he would just as the maintenance guys to add extra chloride
tablets to the pool to clean it up... I had not idea if that worked or
not, but I never set my foot in that pool during the rest of my week
long stay.

So... what do most hotels do in this type of situations?

FlyingUnderTheRadar

Nothing ... Urine is virtually sterile when it leaves your body. I'd worry more about fecal matter. That is the bigger problem.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gor...n-you-pee-pool

CDTraveler

My son is certified life guard who ran an apartment complex pool (fairly large pool) last summer so I ran this question by him. He laughed at the idea of anybody draining a pool for baby pee.

Standard protocol is to increase the chlorine going into the pump and filtration system for a while. The thought of swimming in pee is nasty, but after it's been diluted into chlorinated water it isn't likely to make you sick.

FirstInFlight

Generally add chlorine and give it about 20 minutes of circulation and you are good to go. Many pools will not close at all - some do to put the guests at ease.

Feces (if solid) is treated in the same manner but again is not a big deal - chlorine and 30 minutes of circulation and you are good. Again most pools will close for 30 minutes but not all.

Diarrhea is a problem. Diarrhea often keads to recreational water illnesses - mainly crypto. The pool will close. The chlorine will be raised very very high to ensure that crypto is inactivated - generally 45 minutes to an hour. Depending on local regulations, a water inspector of the local health department may have to test before reopening. Most larger properties have someone on staff qualified to run that test. If crypto or another parasite is detected the pool may be kept closed for longer. If you are a guest - don't assume the other pools are safe. Many properties use shared filtration systems.

Bottom line - diarrhea is a problem -the rest may be disgusting mutual the potwntial for a RWI is very low.

obscure2k

Pool diapers are now pretty routine on babies. Those diapers are very absorbent.

gfunkdave

Can one of them absorb the entire pool?

Badenoch

Seriously? Drained his pool because an infant peed in it? That's a whole new level of germaphobe.

It reminds me of an old joke:

Swim Coach: "Jensen, stop peeing in the pool!"

Jensen: "C'mon coach everybody pees in the pool."

Swim Coach: "Yeah, but not from the diving board."

djk7

He better not swim in the ocean, everything from whales on down do their business there.

will2288

Also remember that in the vast majority of cases, the hotel does not know when this happens.

obscure2k

^@:-)

Redhead

Actually swim diapers are designed to let urine flow thru and only catch fecal matter.

The BNA Gentleman

Right now, there are people smiling because they don't give a .... about peeing in a public pool and will continue to do so out of some kind of sick selfish mindset.

I've had people I know defend peeing in the pool before.

obscure2k

Even better.

MSPeconomist

I once saw a RC close its kids' pool for several hours because some small child that wasn't toilet trained had used the pool without a pool diaper (that the hotel supplied for free). There was a sign saying why it was closed.

Jmill79

LOL